The most important day in 2020 is the global handwashing day, which has never been so critical than now, during the pandemic. Global handwashing day, people are more acquainted with soap than ever before as we wash our hands to help stop the spread of coronavirus and also prevent 1 in 3 diarrheal illness 40…
Clarity of statistics amid disinformation and mutant algorithms The threat of pandemic had made us crave data: Millions pore over R numbers, the technicalities of vaccine trials and testing accuracy, once of interest only to biostatisticians, are now daily front page news. Can we really trust the statistics our governments are publishing about the virus? Does…
The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to French researcher Emmanuelle Charpentier and American biochemist Jennifer A Doudna for developing the tools to edit DNA. The duo discovered one of gene technology’s sharpest tools, the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors, a way of making specific and precise changes to the DNA contained in living cells.…
Fifty-six Indian entrepreneurs who founded various innovative Indian startups conferred on a Zoom Video conference call earlier this week to discuss a range of issues including establishing an alternative to Google Play Store, and set up a startup collective to fight the power of Big Tech and shape digital policy to take into account…
In only a matter of months Dogs trained at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine could accurately detect a person with Covid-19 symptoms from a crowd or at ports of entry, and other large gathering like arenas, and football stadiums. In the absence of a credible Covid-19 vaccine, man’s best friend Dog will…
The world’s coronavirus death toll has surpassed one million with the US, Brazil, and India making nearly half of the total, according to Johns Hopkins University, within 10 months after new began to emerge about mysterious cases of viral pneumonia in Wuhan, China. As the testing rates in many countries remain low with the virus-related…
New Precision medicine for treating advanced prostate cancer has been called a “breakthrough” by a leading cancer charity. Olaparib and Ipatasertib have the potential to become the first precision medicines for advanced prostate cancer, according to research presented at the European Society for Medical Oncology’s Virtual Congress 2020. These medicines allow doctors to select the…
Coronavirus surpasses 30 million cases and 945, 166 deaths affecting 213 countries and territories around the world, and 2 international conveyances. “We must keep on protecting each other “Wash your hands, cover your face, Make space if you have symptoms book a test”, according to NHS UK. The main symptoms of coronavirus (COVID-19) are a…
In August as the effect of the Eat Out to Help Out scheme which ran from Monday to Wednesday, and offered 50 per cent off food up to the value of £10, pushed down the restaurant prices and July’s consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation figure had been1 per cent. The VAT cut in the hospitality…
Hippocrates is a celebrated worldwide father of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath is admired throughout the medical profession as a founding statement of ethics and ideals. In the fifth century BC, The ancient Greeks even wrote of medicine as a newly discovered craft they had invented. Robin Lane Fox’s book put Greek invention of medicine…